Bills & Legislation

AN ACT relating to special license plates; providing for the issuance of special license plates indicating support for the Las Vegas Aces basketball team; exempting the special license plates indicating support for the Las Vegas Aces basketball team from certain provisions otherwise applicable to certain special license plates; subjecting the Las Vegas Aces Foundation to certain reporting requirements and financial investigations; imposing a fee for the issuance and renewal of the special license plates indicating support for the Las Vegas Aces basketball team; eliminating provisions prohibiting certain new vehicle dealers from accepting an application for the registration of a motor vehicle if the applicant wishes to obtain special license plates; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Tracy Brown-MayDemocrat

AN ACT relating to business entities; revising provisions relating to notice or other communications by business entities; making a conforming change relating to fiduciary duties owed by directors and officers of a corporation; revising provisions governing voting relating to the approval of a reverse stock split of a corporation; removing certain provisions governing the issuance of shares of a corporation; making changes to certain approvals by a board of directors; clarifying provisions relating to voting agreements by stockholders; revising provisions governing the amendment of articles of incorporation after issuance of stock; revising certain terms relating to business entities; revising provisions relating to the last known address of members and managers of a limited-liability company and the dissolution of a limited-liability company; establishing a process by which a corporation may reorganize through the formation of a holding corporation; revising provisions relating to the approval of a plan of merger, conversion or exchange of a domestic corporation and the conversion of a domestic entity into a foreign entity; revising provisions governing the right of a stockholder to dissent from certain corporate actions; making various other changes relating to business entities; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Joe DaliaDemocrat

AN ACT relating to behavioral health; requiring the certification of a natural person who holds himself or herself out as a certified prevention specialist; prohibiting a minor from providing or supervising the provision of peer recovery support services; authorizing the imposition of civil penalties for certain violations; prohibiting the employment or retention as an independent contractor of a natural person to serve as a certified prevention specialist in a position where the natural person has regular and substantial contact with minors if the natural person has been found to have engaged in certain conduct; requiring a certified prevention specialist to report certain information; requiring a substance use disorder prevention coalition to employ or enter into contracts with certified prevention specialists for certain purposes; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Health and Human Services

AN ACT relating to physical therapy; enacting and entering into the Physical Therapy Licensure Compact; authorizing the sharing of certain information with the data system created pursuant to the Compact; providing a person practicing as a physical therapist or physical therapist assistant under the Compact with the same legal status as a person practicing as a physical therapist or physical therapist assistant under a license issued by the Nevada Physical Therapy Board; revising certain terminology relating to physical therapists; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Elaine H. MarzolaDemocrat

AN ACT relating to professions; providing for the licensure of speech-language pathology assistants; authorizing certain persons to engage in the supervised practice of speech-language pathology; revising the scope of practice of audiologists, hearing aid specialists and speech-language pathologists; requiring certain persons to be licensed and regulated as audiologists or speech-language pathologists; increasing the maximum amount of certain fees; authorizing the Speech-Language Pathology, Audiology and Hearing Aid Dispensing Board to waive fees in certain circumstances; requiring that certain fees be discounted for certain persons affiliated with the military; revising the required qualifications for and processes for issuing certain licenses; eliminating the requirement for a licensed audiologist to obtain an endorsement before engaging in the practice of fitting and dispensing hearing aids; revising provisions relating to the sale of hearing aids; imposing certain requirements relating to the classification of persons who practice speech-language pathology in schools under a collective bargaining agreement; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Cecelia GonzálezDemocrat

AN ACT relating to governmental administration; prohibiting certain acts related to critical infrastructure or used utility wire; establishing requirements relating to transactions involving used utility wire; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Government Affairs

AN ACT relating to insurance; requiring certain insurers to allow certain persons who are less than 65 years of age to purchase a Medicare supplemental policy that the insurer makes available for purchase to new insureds who are 65 years of age or older; imposing certain restrictions on the limitations, terms and conditions such an insurer may impose and the premiums such an insurer may charge for such policies to persons who are less than 65 years of age; requiring such an insurer to establish certain open enrollment periods for the purchase of a Medicare supplemental policy; prohibiting an insurer from imposing an exclusion of certain benefits with respect to a Medicare supplemental policy issued during an open enrollment period; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

RobertaAssistant Majority Leader LangeDemocrat

AN ACT relating to special license plates; providing for the issuance of special license plates indicating support for Nevada State University; exempting the special license plates from certain provisions otherwise applicable to special license plates; imposing a fee for the issuance and renewal of such license plates; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Michelee "Shelly" Cruz-CrawfordDemocrat

AN ACT relating to insurance; requiring certain health plans to authorize a woman covered by such a plan to obtain covered gynecological or obstetrical services without first receiving authorization or a referral from her primary care physician; requiring such health plans to authorize a woman covered by such a plan to designate an obstetrician or gynecologist as her primary care physician under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

RobertaAssistant Majority Leader LangeDemocrat

AN ACT relating to governmental administration; creating and setting forth the composition of the Governor's Technology Office within the Office of the Governor; transferring the powers and duties of the Office of the Chief Information Officer within the Office of the Governor to the Governor's Technology Office; revising the classification and duties of the Deputy Chief of the Office of Information Security; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Government Affairs

AN ACT relating to economic development; requiring certain reporting relating to the NV Grow Program; requiring the Division of Small Business and Entrepreneurship Development of the College of Southern Nevada to develop, create and oversee the Program; revising certain qualifications for a business to participate in the Program; making an appropriation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Dina NealDemocrat

AN ACT relating to health care; requiring certain physician assistants and advanced practice registered nurses to examine pregnant women for the discovery of syphilis; requiring the use of a rapid or point-of-care test when testing certain pregnant women for syphilis in certain circumstances; requiring certain medical facilities to develop a policy to ensure compliance with such requirements; exempting certain medical facilities from requirements relating to testing for syphilis; authorizing the discipline of certain health care facilities that violate such requirements; requiring Medicaid to reimburse for rapid or point-of-care testing for syphilis performed under certain circumstances separately from reimbursement for other prenatal care; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

AN ACT relating to the City of Henderson; revising provisions governing the filling of a vacancy for certain municipal elective offices; revising the procedure for enacting ordinances; revising provisions governing the sale and disposition of real property; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Government Affairs

AN ACT relating to criminal procedure; authorizing a court to waive the requirement that the Division of Parole and Probation of the Department of Public Safety make a presentence investigation and report under certain circumstances; providing that a failure by the Chief Parole and Probation Officer to submit a presentence investigation and report before a sentencing hearing is not grounds for an order of contempt under certain circumstances; revising requirements relating to the disclosure of a presentence investigation and report to a defendant; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Judiciary

AN ACT relating to housing; requiring the governing body of each county and city to adopt an ordinance to authorize by-right a multifamily housing development or mixed-use development that includes a residential use on property zoned for commercial use; declaring void certain county or city ordinances; authorizing the State Land Registrar to transfer, under certain circumstances, certain real property owned by the State of Nevada to certain entities without consideration; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

SandraMajority Floor Leader JaureguiDemocrat

AN ACT relating to education; revising provisions governing the selection of members to certain boards and councils; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Reuben D'SilvaDemocrat

AN ACT relating to child welfare; establishing a form by which a parent or guardian may request to nominate a guardian of a minor; authorizing the filing of such a form in the Nevada Lockbox; removing the authority of the Secretary of State to charge and collect a fee for filing a form in the Nevada Lockbox; creating a presumption that temporary guardianship is in the best interest of a minor in certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Cecelia GonzálezDemocrat

AN ACT relating to public meetings; revising the definition of “meeting” for purposes of the Open Meeting Law; revising provisions relating to requirements for meetings conducted by means of a remote technology system; revising provisions relating to privilege for certain statements and testimony made at a public meeting; revising provisions relating to the applicability of certain provisions of the Open Meeting Law to certain proceedings; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Government Affairs

AN ACT relating to unemployment compensation; revising requirements for obtaining judicial review of a decision of the Board of Review concerning a claim for unemployment benefits; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Commerce and Labor

AN ACT making appropriations to the Nevada Promise Scholarship Account and the Account for Pensions for Silicosis, Diseases Related to Asbestos and Other Disabilities; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Finance

AN ACT relating to education; requiring an emergency operations plan development committee for public and private schools to create a plan for responding to certain medical emergencies relating to the heart; authorizing the board of trustees of a school district, the governing body of a charter school or the governing body of a private school to include certain providers of health care as members of such a committee; requiring the governing body of a charter school to establish a plan for certain personnel to obtain training and certification in the administration of cardiopulmonary resuscitation; establishing requirements for certain training and certification for coaches, managers and athletic trainers; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Hanadi NadeemDemocrat

AN ACT relating to insurance; revising certain notice requirements imposed on an insurer who issues a policy of portable electronics insurance; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Heidi KasamaRepublican

AN ACT relating to incarcerated persons; requiring the Director of the Department of Corrections to collect and maintain an electronic record for certain incarcerated persons with certain information and furnish the State Demographer with certain information relating to incarcerated persons; revising requirements governing the manner of revising certain population counts to count inmates; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Legislative Operations and Elections

AN ACT relating to education; revising provisions governing plans to improve academic achievement; providing for the waiver of certain reporting requirements; revising provisions governing the annual report of accountability for a school district; revising the duties of the Commission on Innovation and Excellence in Education; providing for the impaneling of a Public Education Oversight Board; revising provisions governing boards of trustees of certain school districts; establishing certain measures for the designation of focus and priority school districts, sponsors of charter schools and public schools; revising provisions governing the Commission on School Funding; revising provisions governing the Early Childhood Literacy and Readiness Account; revising provisions governing prekindergarten programs; revising provisions governing assessments used to assess the literacy of certain pupils; revising provisions governing membership of the State Public Charter School Authority; revising provisions governing the formation of charter schools, the termination and amendment of charter contracts and the employment of teachers by charter schools; revising provisions governing the Nevada Educational Choice Scholarship Program; revising certain provisions governing instruction in English language arts; creating the Commission on Recruitment and Retention; revising provisions relating to the Commission on Professional Standards in Education; revising provisions governing background investigations of applicants for certain licenses; establishing requirements governing the hiring of a superintendent of schools; revising provisions governing certain evaluations; requiring the creation of a differential pay scale for certain teachers and administrators; creating the Education Service Center; establishing certain requirements for the Board of Regents of the University of Nevada; creating certain accounts and programs concerning teacher apprenticeships; making appropriations; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Nicole J.Majority Leader CannizzaroDemocrat

AN ACT relating to education; requiring the Department of Education to create and conduct certain surveys of public school employees; revising provisions governing the reimbursement of certain hospitals or other facilities that provide educational services; revising terminology related to services provided to certain students; revising various reporting requirements relating to education; revising provisions governing the authority of the State Board of Education; revising provisions governing the ratios of pupils to licensed teachers; eliminating certain audits of empowerment schools; revising provisions governing the licensure of administrators; repealing provisions governing the Nevada Teacher Advancement Scholarship Program and the Incentivizing Pathways to Teaching Grant Program; revising provisions governing certain scholarship and grant programs for students in education and related fields of study; requiring the Department to create a program of block grants for such scholarship and grant programs; eliminating provisions requiring the Department to recommend that a minimum amount be spent by public schools on textbooks and other instructional supplies; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Education

AN ACT relating to state government; creating the Nevada Health Authority; creating certain divisions and offices within the Authority; providing for the appointment of officers and the employment of staff for the Authority; establishing requirements governing procurement by the Authority; creating the Nevada Health Authority Gift Fund; prescribing the duties of the Authority and its divisions and officers; transferring to the Authority the responsibility for operating various programs and administering various provisions; revising the name of certain agencies; revising certain terminology; eliminating the Division of Health Care Financing and Policy of the Department of Health and Human Services; revising provisions governing the operation of the Public Employees' Benefits Program and Medicaid; requiring certain reporting on the costs of health insurance for retired state employees; authorizing the Authority to require the reporting of certain information on the cost of certain prescription drugs; revising the membership and duties of the Board of Directors of the Silver State Health Insurance Exchange; providing for a study of opportunities for the Board of the Public Employees' Benefits Program to directly contract with certain providers of health care; providing for a study of and the development of a plan to transfer certain additional functions to the Authority; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Finance

AN ACT relating to projects of capital improvement; authorizing certain expenditures for certain projects of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the State Government; levying a property tax to support the Consolidated Bond Interest and Redemption Fund; making appropriations; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Finance

AN ACT relating to offenders; prohibiting the Director of the Department of Corrections from taking certain actions relating to certain debts upon the release of an offender from prison; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Judiciary

AN ACT relating to state financial administration; authorizing expenditures by various officers, departments, boards, agencies, commissions and institutions of the State Government for the 2025-2027 biennium; authorizing the collection of certain amounts from the counties in the 2025-2027 biennium for the use of the services of the State Public Defender; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Finance

AN ACT relating to education; ensuring sufficient funding for K-12 public education for the 2025-2027 biennium; apportioning the State Education Fund for the 2025-2027 biennium; authorizing certain expenditures; making appropriations relating to base per pupil funding, weighted funding and other educational purposes; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Finance

AN ACT relating to child welfare; authorizing a court to dismiss and reassume jurisdiction over a young adult under certain circumstances for the purpose of obtaining certain federal funding; revising provisions governing eligibility to participate in the Extended Young Adult Support Services Program; revising the manner in which a young adult may elect not to participate in the Program; revising the duties of an agency which provides child welfare services with respect to the Program; revising requirements governing court hearings concerning a participant in the Program; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Finance

AN ACT relating to public safety; transferring the authority to regulate and permit food establishments from the Division of Public and Behavioral Health of the Department of Health and Human Services to the State Department of Agriculture; transferring the authority of the State Board of Health to adopt, amend and enforce regulations to provide for the sanitary protection of water and food supplies to the State Department of Agriculture; repealing various provisions governing food establishments; requiring, with certain exceptions, a county to pay an assessment to the Department for services relating to food establishments; revising provisions relating to cottage food operations; revising provisions relating to farm-to-fork events; revising provisions relating to the purchase or use of hemp or commodities or products made using hemp by certain persons who operate a food establishment; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Finance

AN ACT relating to forensic medical examinations; revising provisions relating to payment of the costs of a forensic medical examination of a victim of a sexual assault or domestic violence battery by strangulation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Judiciary

AN ACT relating to taxation; requiring an applicant for the issuance of transferable tax credits and the partial abatement of certain taxes for a project that is located in an economic diversification district to enter into an agreement with certain local governments to defray the cost of services provided by the local governments under certain circumstances; revising provisions governing applications for the issuance of transferable tax credits and the partial abatement of certain taxes for a project that satisfies certain capital investment and other requirements; authorizing a fire protection district to abate certain fees; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Revenue and Economic Development

AN ACT relating to insurance; revising provisions governing certain duties of insurers and certain other providers of health coverage with regard to coverage and claims for persons who are eligible for or provided medical assistance under Medicaid; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Commerce and Labor

AN ACT relating to securities; creating the Fund for the Compensation of Victims of Securities Fraud and prescribing the use of money in the Fund; authorizing certain persons to whom a court orders restitution to apply for compensation from the Fund; requiring the Administrator of the Securities Division of the Office of the Secretary of State to review applications for and award compensation from the Fund; making confidential certain information; requiring the Division to adopt regulations relating to the administration of the Fund; requiring the Administrator to submit to the Legislature a biennial report concerning the Fund; requiring a person who receives compensation from the Fund to reimburse the State for such compensation under certain circumstances; revising provisions relating to certain exempt securities and exempt transactions; revising provisions governing the deposit of certain money received by the Division or the Administrator; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Judiciary

AN ACT relating to industrial insurance; revising certain requirements for an insurer or third-party administrator to maintain a physical office in this State; revising the circumstances under which the Administrator of the Division of Industrial Relations of the Department of Business and Industry may conduct certain inspections; revising provisions relating to the administration of certain claims; revising provisions relating to the calculation of certain premium costs; revising provisions relating to certain administrators; revising provisions relating to certain audits; revising provisions relating to certain subsequent injury accounts; authorizing the Administrator to adopt regulations relating to physician assistants; requiring the Administrator to adopt a certain formulary; revising provisions relating to an insurer's list of certain physicians and chiropractic physicians; establishing and revising various requirements for certain hearings relating to industrial insurance claims; revising provisions governing an injury or disease that is caused by stress; revising provisions governing motions to stay certain decisions and petitions for judicial review; revising requirements for payments for a period of temporary partial disability; revising the circumstances under which the Administrator may impose certain administrative fines; repealing provisions governing certain appeals and certain determinations of a percentage of disability; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

SkipDeputy Majority Whip DalyDemocrat

AN ACT relating to governmental administration; transferring the Nevada Office of Cyber Defense Coordination of the Department of Public Safety to the Office of the Chief Information Officer within the Office of the Governor; merging the Nevada Office of Cyber Defense Coordination with the Office of Information Security in the Office of the Chief Information Officer; setting forth the duties of the Office of Information Security and Cyber Defense; providing certain records are confidential; repealing provisions relating to the Nevada Office of Cyber Defense Coordination; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Finance

AN ACT relating to education; requiring the board of trustees of a school district to determine the percentage of certain pupils enrolled in the school district; revising the definition of pupils who are considered a “long-term English learner” for the purposes of certain reporting; revising certain factors considered in determining whether a pupil is eligible for a good-cause exemption to the requirement that the pupil be retained in grade 3 after not achieving a passing score on a uniform examination in reading; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Education

AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; expanding to certain employees of the Department of Motor Vehicles the authority to inspect vehicles to determine rightful ownership or possession; authorizing certain employees of the Department to apply for certain court orders and complete necessary affidavits for such orders; prohibiting a person from tampering with a device for the control of emissions of a motor vehicle or removing such a device from a motor vehicle; prohibiting a person from possessing an electronic device capable of tampering with a device for the control of emissions of a motor vehicle; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Growth and Infrastructure

AN ACT relating to disability services; revising the categories of persons who receive certain services from the Aging and Disability Services Division of the Department of Health and Human Services; renaming the Attorney for the Rights of Older Persons and Persons with a Physical Disability, an Intellectual Disability or a Related Condition; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Health and Human Services

AN ACT relating to Medicaid; requiring Medicaid to provide coverage for medical respite care for persons experiencing homelessness, if federal financial participation is available; requiring the development of a model for providing such medical respite care; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Health and Human Services

AN ACT relating to state financial administration; revising provisions relating to the preparation of the budget of the Executive Department of the State Government; revising provisions governing the Account to Stabilize the Operation of the State Government; revising provisions relating to the preparation of the statewide cost allocation plan; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Finance

AN ACT making appropriations to the Training Division of the Department of Public Safety for the replacement of equipment, computer hardware and associated software, beds and mattresses and for maintenance projects and services; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Finance

AN ACT relating to financial services; imposing certain duties on providers of certain financial services relating to the safeguarding of customer information; establishing certain standards relating to the financial condition and corporate governance of certain mortgage servicers; requiring the Commissioner of Mortgage Lending and the Commissioner of Financial Institutions to adopt certain regulations; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Commerce and Labor

AN ACT relating to consumer protection; clarifying the authority of the Attorney General with respect to bringing certain actions relating to deceptive trade practices; revising certain civil penalties relating to deceptive trade practices; revising the authorized uses of money in the Consumer Protection Legal Account in the Office of the Attorney General; clarifying when the Consumer's Advocate of the Bureau of Consumer Protection in the Office of the Attorney General has custody or control of certain records; making certain records, files and communications of the Consumer's Advocate confidential; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Commerce and Labor

AN ACT relating to land use planning; revising the date by which local planning commissions in certain counties are required to submit an annual report to the regional planning commission and the governing board for regional planning; revising provisions governing the terms of members of certain planning commissions; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Government Affairs

AN ACT relating to state financial administration; revising provisions relating to the lease of residential property owned by this State to state officers and employees; authorizing a temporary advance from the State General Fund for expenses relating to fire suppression and emergency response in certain circumstances; creating the Out-of-State Fire Suppression Account; revising provisions relating to the Division of Forestry Account; making an appropriation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Finance

AN ACT relating to electricity; establishing a process by which a unit's owner in certain unit-owners' associations may submit a request to install a distributed generation system; establishing certain powers and duties of certain unit-owners' associations with respect to the installation of distributed generation systems; establishing and revising certain requirements for the contents of an agreement for the purchase or lease of a distributed generation system and a power purchase agreement; imposing certain requirements upon a solar installation company; revising provisions relating to net metering systems; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Commerce and Labor

AN ACT relating to crimes; expanding the types of crimes that require the imposition of an additional criminal penalty for certain crimes committed intentionally or knowingly against an older or a vulnerable person; providing that persons convicted of these types of crimes may be liable for certain civil penalties to be recovered by the Attorney General; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Judiciary